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Report comes two days after former employee quit claiming company’s models could cause human extinction by 2030

The South Padre Island Convention and Visitor Advisory Board voted Wednesday to advance two changes to Visit South Padre Island’s marketing operations, including negotiations with a new agency focused on Mexico and a renegotiated agreement with its current agency of record.

The Texas Department of Information Resources announced on Monday that Amy Kelley, a tech official who has overseen state and city retirement systems in Texas, had been hired to serve as the agency’s new internal chief information officer, a role that includes leading the agency’s artificial intelligence division.

From left, clockwise: James Landay will lead the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, while Fei-Fei Li and John Hennessy will serve as co-chairs of the advisory council. | Andrew Brodhead, Linda A. Cicero, Drew Kelly